piazza

From Italian piazza.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /piˈæt.sə/,[1] /piˈɑt.sə/[1]
• (US) (veranda): IPA^(key): /piˈæ.zə/,[1] /piˈɑ.zə/[1]

piazza (plural piazzas or piazze)

1. A public square, especially in Italian cities.
2. (US dialectal, especially New England, dated) A veranda; a porch.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

3. (Britain) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).

• The plural piazze is used especially when the word refers to public squares in Italy, and plural piazzas when it refers to porches.
• In some Southern dialects, the variant form pizer is used.

• Thomas Durant Visser, Porches of North America (2012, →ISBN

• apizza

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjat.t͡sa/, [ˈpjät̪t̪͡s̪ä]
• Stress: piàzza
• Hyphenation: piaz‧za
• Rhymes: -attsa

From Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

piazza f (plural piazze)

1. square, plaza
2. market
3. space, post
4. (Rome, figuratively) A bald area on the scalp.

• (market): mercato
• (bald spot): chierica

• mettere in piazza
• piazzale
• piazzetta

• → English: piazza
• → Romanian: piață

See the etymology of the main entry.

piazza

1. third-person singular present indicative of piazzare
2. second-person singular imperative of piazzare

• pazzia